Photo of the Fifth Avenue scene, The Hairy Ape

From The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde by Dassia N. Posner

This photograph shows the mannequin-like Fifth-Avenue fox-trotters in The Hairy Ape. The women are made up to look like dolls, while the men wear half masks with distorted mouths on the lower portions of their faces. Yank (left) gazes at them in anger and alarm. See book: p. 129
Creator(s)	Tairov, Alexander
Creator Role	director
Contributor(s)	Stenberg, Vladimir (artist) Stenberg, Georgy (artist) Lukianov, Leonid (director) O’Neill, Eugene (author)
Subjects	Performing Arts
Date	Premiere: January 24, 1926
Related Section	Chapter 2: Tairov-Celionati: Mime-Drama and Kaleidoscopic Commedia
Keywords	pantomime master actor physical training grotesque masks Kamerny Theatre
Content Type	photograph
Language	English
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Rightsholder	Copyright © Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow
Copyright Status	in-copyright
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Credit Line	Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, f. 2030, op. 1, ed. khr. 329: 27
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Fifth Avenue scene, The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Alexander Tairov and L. L. Lukianov, Moscow Kamerny Theatre (premiere: January 24, 1926). Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, f. 2030, op. 1, ed. khr. 329: 27.

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